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US 10,700,969 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Feb 17, 2021 (Silicon Valley Bank, as Administrative and Collateral Agent).

Term ends Oct 27, 2034 · High confidence

Held by Fastly, Inc.
Filed Jul 17, 2018 as application 16/038,009 · Granted Jun 30, 2020
Base term plus 161 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
20 years from filing
2014 2034
Clock starts
Sep 17, 2014
Term ends
Oct 27, 2034
Granted
Jun 30, 2020
base term patent term adjustment fee events Updated Nov 14, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 14, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
161
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,044,609, US 9,887,914.
1 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Three maintenance fees fall due, at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from grant. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
4
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

This patent's term runs 161 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: High. from the record

How we calculated this date

One row per rule, each showing its own input and what it did to the date. A step we could not verify says so instead of resolving itself.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Sep 17, 2014, when application 14/488,832, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 17, 2018)Sep 17, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+161 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordFeb 25, 2035High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,044,609, US 9,887,914)capped to Oct 27, 2034High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 27, 2034High confidence

This family

US 10,044,609In force
Oct 2034
Oct 2034
Application PCT/US2015/014038PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 10,700,969this patent
Oct 2034
Oct 2034
Application 16/891,313Abandoned
not computed
not computed
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Assignments

Assignment documents as recorded at the USPTO, oldest first, with the reel and frame each was recorded at. A recorded assignment is a filed document, not a statement of current ownership, and the absence of a later one is not evidence that the last one still stands.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jul 17, 2018
Reel 46375, frame 536
Bergman, ArturFastly, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 17, 2021
Reel 55316, frame 616
Fastly, Inc.Silicon Valley Bank, as Administrative and Collateral AgentSecurity Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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